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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mine is one who is very very happy being scheduled and having a sport or activity (or two!) every day. But I don't fully pack his schedule because 1) I think he needs downtime to veg, even if he might not think so, and 2) To do things well, he needs time for that. Right now his "thing to do well" is string instrument ensemble. So he spends 2-3 hours per week on that (private lesson and ensemble), but to get through all his rep he needs to practice at least 25 minutes a day. To do it reasonably well, he needs to be doing more. The kids have similar needs with sports. If he took football, he'd have to have 2x/week practice with the team, plus I'm sure they'd encourage throwing the ball around once or twice a week. Swimming, soccer, golf, chess, math competition, or tennis - same story. I think it's great to let kids try a variety of things, but I'm also happy to encourage that one of those things be done well.[/quote]

I have a kid who does extremely well with instruments without outside training or much practice needed. He plays on his own for fun sometimes but has no set practice day beyond what he gets in class. He does well enough in rec sports to not need anything additional. He did drop travel soccer because it required more outside training than he wanted to keep up. But the majority of things most kids do as extracurriculars are for fun and dont need to require more work beyond the scheduled times. If they do, then that time should be built in to your weekly so one day at home is actually a self training day. But I think the majority of posters here are not doing extra. The scheduled activity is the extra.[/quote]

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